{"id":402235,"date":"2026-09-17T05:29:29","date_gmt":"2026-09-17T05:29:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/402235\/"},"modified":"2026-09-17T05:29:29","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T05:29:29","slug":"nick-martinez-gets-15th-win-as-rays-beat-athletics-4-3-for-5th-straight-victory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/402235\/","title":{"rendered":"Nick Martinez gets 15th win as Rays beat Athletics 4-3 for 5th straight victory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ST. PETERSBURG \u2014 Nick Martinez worked five efficient innings for his 15th win, Jonny DeLuca was 2 for 4 with an RBI double, and the Tampa Bay Rays beat the Athletics 4-3 on Wednesday night for their fifth straight win.<\/p>\n<p>The Rays (92-59) extended their lead in the AL East to 4 1\/2 games over the Yankees. <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/tampa-bay-rays-clinch-playoffs-72ba13483c7355c6b09c1f9711b5f34a\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tampa Bay secured a postseason berth<\/a> last week, the first team in the majors to do so.<\/p>\n<p>Martinez (15-4) struck out three and allowed five hits, throwing just 72 pitches. He is two victories shy of AL wins leader Sonny Gray of Boston.<\/p>\n<p>Kevin Kelly threw two innings and fanned four, Cam Booser tossed a scoreless eighth, and Cole Sulser worked the ninth for his third save.<\/p>\n<p>The Rays went ahead 2-0 in the first inning on run-scoring doubles by DeLuca and Chandler Simpson.<\/p>\n<p>Nick Fortes and Ryan Vilade each drove in a run in the second.<\/p>\n<p>Tommy White homered for the A\u2019s leading off the third, a 347-footer to the left-field corner. Henry Bolte also went deep in the third, his 11th.<\/p>\n<p>Shea Langeliers hit an RBI single in the sixth, extending his career-best hitting streak to 12 games.<\/p>\n<p>Brady Basso (1-3) went 2 2\/3 innings for the A\u2019s, surrendering four runs on seven hits. White finished with three hits.<\/p>\n<p>Up next<\/p>\n<p>LHP Jeffrey Springs (4-13, 5.93 ERA) starts for the Athletics on Thursday as they try to avoid a three-game sweep. RHP Drew Rasmussen (14-5, 2.81) will pitch for the Rays.<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/mlb\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">See AP\u2019s full MLB coverage here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ST. PETERSBURG \u2014 Nick Martinez worked five efficient innings for his 15th win, Jonny DeLuca was 2 for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":402236,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[3817,110,202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-402235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-mlb","tag-sports","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=402235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402235\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/402236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=402235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=402235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=402235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}